Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Why We are Screwed As A Nation

State officials say the Department of Water Resources is trying to
balance the public’s right to information while also preventing critical
design elements from falling into the wrong hands.

Got that? A 1960s earth dam technology is now a matter of national security.

Bea’s analysis, which relied on inspection records and design
specifications obtained before the state clamped down on releasing
documents, found that the spillway’s concrete was too thin – as little
as 4 to 6 inches in some places. While concrete-strengthening steel
rebar was embedded throughout the structure,

Clamped down on documents? http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article145304464.html

Actually, it used to be pretty hard to figure out what happened when a disaster struck. Read an Ole mystery sytory. . .no fongerprints,m or they weren't categorized. A medical mystery. Why did the mom and baby die as they often did. Now there still are mysteries but we really can figure out a ewhole lot of stuff in many fields, whereas before the offender had a good shot of nobody figuring out what he'd done,.or covering it up,or maybe the offender really wasn't because they really didn't know what they'd done. I did tell you about George Washington allowing a massacre, right? It wasn't actually covered up, but wasn't spread around either. Would Gary Hart made a good president? We'll never know. Maybe the concreteam thing was to cheat and make more money. Maybe it was an accident, which I personally doubt. But people jugements and wI'll ingress to forgive are at an all time low, I think.

The real reason that we're screwed is that millennials suck as a generation...I can tolerate a few of them, but for the most part I want nothing to do with them. I wouldn't be shocked to see a couple of them show up to work wearing nose bones. Jeez...

My impression is that the spillway was built to the standards of the 1960's. Things are learned from experience -- that's how building codes are developed. The new one will be better. Anyway, it lasted 50 years. Not sure lawyers are needed.

Be sure to check out the Ceramic coated steel shingles since you don't get hail. Real pretty and pretty expensive. Still the permanent color choices can increase resale prices beyond the substantial costs.

Against our advice, Coulter agreed to all these requirements. In return, she requested two measures, which actually had something to do with safety.”

1) That the University of California chancellor request that the Oakland chief of police refrain from telling his men to stand down and ignore law-breaking by rioters attempting to shut down conservative speakers, as he has done in the past; and

2) That UC-Berkeley announce in advance that any students engaging in violence, mayhem or heckling to prevent an invited speaker from speaking would be expelled.

As Coulter explained, “If Berkeley wants to have free speech, it can have it.”

and what are your thoughts about these Town Halls..where conservative reps come to answer questions from their constituents...and get shouted down by liberal activists..to the point where everyone gives up any hope of constructive communication..do you support that behavior??

You know, I said a nice thing about Trump zand then a mean thing. I have heard white people say dreadful things about black people and vice versa. I would never go to a Coulter speech (I don't think that is screaming) because on tv I found her very unpleasant. I'd like peas on ally to know if ships were or were not steaming to the Koreas. It scaresults me that I can't rely on what he says. This is not tiny and not unreasonable.

I kind of agree as the enemy appears to be the government for not repairing or improving known flaws. Thin line keeping government in check. I don't see this dam as a national security target, way to many soft targets ahead of it.

Morning Cinco. Have done some fertizing and choosing which Funds I want based on advuser recomendation, Gloddess help me. He just gets a fee. Then tidying 'cause the maids are coming. Really would like to chop.

Hey look I'm kinda a mess. I don't expect them to know where my papers go, indeed sometimes I don't know that. Nor do I expect them to pick clothes, clean or dirty, off the floor. I just want clean, shiny surfaces everywhere. Now you know the true me, alas